Shadow health secretary Andrew Lansley condemned NHS deep clean ‘stunt’The Government’s flagship deep clean programme has been dismissed as a “political stunt” amid claims hospitals were not using products recommended by health watchdogs.
The Tories said “worrying” figures showed only a small minority of NHS trusts in England were using all the cleaning products recommended by the Health Protection Agency (HPA) to fight bugs like MRSA and Clostridium difficile.
Shadow health secretary Andrew Lansley accused Gordon Brown of “grandstanding” and only being concerned with headlines while “letting patients down.”
But the Department for Health insisted that deep cleaning was just part of a “comprehensive strategy” to improve cleanliness and tackle infection across hospitals. The Tory argument was based on “fundamental misunderstandings”.
The Conservatives said they received replies from 128 out of the 171 NHS Trusts in England following Freedom of Information requests about their cleaning regimes.
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